Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Indian Perspective

Abstract

Since its introduction PTSD has been a topic for debate relating to its validity as a clinical construct, its clinical relevance in various situations, transcultural issues related with it, and even core symptoms associated with diagnostic construct. Studies from India have shown its presence as a psychiatric morbidity after various natural as well as man-made disasters, though to a variable extent. Search for PTSD postdisaster in affected population has been useful in identifying people in need of psychosocial interventions. However, it has been stressed by many researchers that cultural aspects, local psychosocial framework, and coping strategies specific to the population have major clinical and therapeutic implications as far as PTSD is concerned.

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